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	'<{title}>' => 'Catching up on scripture',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;m not starting notes in the middle of a book.
		It&apos;d be too disorganised, and I wouldn&apos;t be able to get my finalised pages on my thoughts on the book right.
		I learned that the hard way when I had to throw out my previous notes on the bible and start over when I started reading Genesis.
		But tomorrow, I&apos;m going to be expected to know information from the Pearl of Great Price&apos;s Book of Moses.
		So with no prayer and no notes, I read the relevant chapter today.
		It clears up the bit with the snake,t hat&apos;s for sure.
		People claim the snake that tempted Eve was Satan, but yet the curse cast on the serpent for its actions was clearly an explanation for why snakes have no legs.
		According to the Mormons though, it seems the serpent was not Satan, but rather that Satan spoke through the serpent.
		Then for some reason, the serpent took the brunt of Jesus&apos; wrath, even though he&apos;s supposedly all-knowing and would know it was Satan to blame.
	</p>
	<p>
		I saw no mention of a second commandment given to Adam, nor any given to Eve.
		So I went back a chapter, to when they were created.
		Again, no second commandment.
		Adam and Eve weren&apos;t told to be fruitful and multiply, which means that even if they needed to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge to do so, there weren&apos;t two contradictory commandments.
		The commandment to be fruitful and multiply was actually give to Noah and his sons (but not Noah&apos;s wife or daughters, for some reason, even though these males would need the help of these females in order to accomplish the task) after the great flood, which happened much later.
	</p>
	<p>
		As a side note, I think the Book of Moses might be the first book in the Pearl of Great Price, so I could start at the beginning and start my notes, but I already need to clean up my notes on the Book of Mormon, and I&apos;ve started the bible ...
		I think I&apos;m going to try to finish the bible first, then the Book of Mormon, then I&apos;ll move on to the Pearl.
		I think I might want to start over in the Book of Mormon too, because my note format when I started this time was too restrictive.
		I&apos;ve avoided commenting on certain parts because I wasn&apos;t sure where to fit my comments into my formatted page.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I brought this up to another student too, but I&apos;ll ask you as well.
			You say that the partly-committed state happens after the final statement of the transaction, and also that the committed state is the successful completion of the transaction.
			What&apos;s the difference between these two states?
			Or to be more clear, why are these two separate states needed instead of one successful completion state?
			What happens in the partly-committed state that cannot take place in the active state, but absolutely must take place before the committed state?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, finding an article on time is a major pain.
			It looks like for future assignments of this nature though - in this course, anyway - we&apos;ve been given permission to use other sources, so long as the articles found are of the same level of quality.
			That&apos;ll greatly improve our results, eliminate these noxious login walls, and make submitting our initial posts in a timely manner much easier.
		</p>
		<p>
			I like how you brought up deadlocks in regards to concurrency.
			I mentioned before that this course and my other one are somewhat on the same page at the moment, and deadlocks tie the two courses together nicely once more.
			I actually just got done writing a short paper on resolving database deadlocks for my other course earlier today.
			As I mentioned in my paper, it&apos;s a better option to avoid deadlocks to begin with though, and it seems your source agrees.
			Instead of allowing deadlocks to take place and need to be resolved, the system proposed tries to leverage the operating system&apos;s scheduler to allow transactions to complete before a new transaction takes place.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="wimp">
	<h2>Am I a wimp now?</h2>
	<p>
		I visited my father tonight.
		We talked about many things, but one thing that came up was Coos Bay.
		I mentioned how I&apos;d had to bike four hours to get to work, then work eight and a half hours, then bike four hours to get back home.
		I only had time to sleep, then bike back to work.
		I recall being tired.
		But I kept going, and didn&apos;t yearn for a time it&apos;d be over, as far as I remember.
	</p>
	<p>
		But now ...
		I&apos;ve barely recovered from my constant trips to Eugene those two weeks, and my trips were much shorter.
		Have I gotten weaker?
		Am I a wimp now?
		I guess it was a four-day stretch that I had to do this, if I recall.
		Still, that was eight hours of biking per day and no relaxation in between.
	</p>
	<p>
		Come to think of it, am I remembering wrong?
		Maybe the four-hour commute was when I walked to work.
		I think I remember walking to work at some point, and I couldn&apos;t&apos;ve made it in time if the bike trip alone was four hours.
		I guess my memory is just hazy then.
		I&apos;m not weaker after all, hopefully.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="prayer">
	<h2>Prayer impressions log</h2>
	<p>
		I prayed about how I was about to read the next chapter of Genesis.
		I said I thought it&apos;d be interesting, but also crazy like the other chapters.
		After praying, I saw dragonflies from below, with trees up above them.
	</p>
	<p>
		The fifth chapter of Genesis was no more than an accounting of the bloodline from Adam and Eve to Noah, but only listed the paternal parents for some reason.
		There wasn&apos;t much to pray about there.
		So I just prayed that I&apos;d be seeing the missionaries tomorrow.
		It&apos;ll be interesting to see what they think they&apos;ve uncovered about the fall and what they think of what I think I&apos;ve uncovered about it.
		After praying, I saw a sandy beach, the ocean, and the sky.
	</p>
</section>
END
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